Gulf Aviation Academy (Bahrain)

[vfenext]

RP after reading a lot of your posts I have come to the conclusion that you really are stupid.

[fly_hailex]

International Students allowed at Gulf Avation accadamy ?

Hello There ,

I'm Haile. I have been following these thread & I presume you know a lot about GAA.
Here are my Questions. I am not a UAE citizen but I would like to apply for the Cadet program of GAA ? Is it possible ? Are there exceptions ?
Please explain

Thanks

[Nekro]

So anyone has news on this joke of an academy? what happened to all the graduates?

[CadetPilot]

^ Exactly what Rid3r said.
I know of so many guys that are working in the 2 companies, except some of them(Oxford grads) have sworn they won't pay a penny back until they are given a job.
Not sure how that will work out for them.
As for the guys that are with Alpha Aviation, I am not sure..

[Mr. R]

rumor has it that Air Arabia are offering Oxford grads from GAA line training hours and a job but I heard it will cost Tamkeen a pretty penny

and it seems parents of unemployed studnets are negotiating with BDB about the installments of these loans (remember Tamkeen subsidizes half of the course fees so they don't actually pay fifty large at all)

[CadetPilot]

Mr. R,

Ofcourse they pay it all. At least from what ive understood from my bunch of friends that went to Oxford.
They pay no interest though(I believe GAA pays that).
The other guys would have rather went to Oxford and not Jordan had it been cheaper in Oxford, some of them DID have both options.

I COULD be wrong, this is just as far as I've been told.
Maybe the guys don't even know what they got themselves into.

[Mr. R]

CadetPilot I got this info from a current student in AAG Sharjah. Tamkeen usually cover more than half the amount of the training program costs that they have which aren't aviation-related

[Nekro]

Hahaha what a joke. I heard some of the cadets are actually going to be suing GAA for all this.

[Mr. R]

on what grounds Nekro??

[Nekro]

I have no idea what exactly it's all about, I just heard there were a lot of broken promises by GAA, they're having problems with BDB right now (have to pay back the loan)

[mauro delpiero]

quick maths

Does anyone know how many people are waiting to join the airline who were trained through GAA/BDB/Tamkeen. And how many are presently in training? Lets do some quick maths say its a total of a 100 and each has a loan to BDB/Bank of 50,000BD. 100 x 50,000BD = 5million BD!

[4q_aviator]

Cadets unemployed.

None of the Cadets are under training. Though there have been many broken promises, the fault does not fall on GAA alone. The whole idea lacked information. For example, who would pick pilots with no rating or Experience. And regarding loan instalment all the cadets are to pay them reduced amount. But some of them are not paying until they get a job. Still hopeful that good will come there way.

[FlyBoyMike]

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